CHARISMA
Converged Heterogeneous Advanced 5G Cloud-RAN Architecture for Intelligent and Secure Media Access
Research
10 related papers published
A few details
Project Description
CHARISMA will meet the goals of low-latency and security required for future mobile/wireless networks, using two important concepts: (i) devolved offload with shortest path nearest to end- users; and (ii) an end-to-end security service chain via virtualized open access physical layer security (PLS). Integration with an intelligent mobile cloud will increase spectral and energy efficiency and provide enhanced performance with 1000-fold higher data volume for 10-100 times the number of mobile connected devices and reducing latency by factors targeting e.g. the envisaged machine-type of communications in future 5G deployments.
MNLAB
Role
NCSRD is in charge of the CHARISMA Prototypes and Validation, leading WP4 of the project. Additionally, NCSRD contributes to:
1. Design and specification of the overall CHARISMA architecture. Moreover, significant effort allocated in the identification of requirements and specification of the CHARISMA use cases.
2. Definition and implementation of the CHARISMA Control, Management and Orchestration platform, leveraging on the SDN and NFV approaches to offer orchestration of security and caching related network services and slicing of the underlying common infrastructure to different VNOs.
3. Definition of the CHARISMA demonstrators and experimental validation of the proposed solutions. NCSRD is offering significant infrastructure in order develop the pilot end-to-end secure CHARISMA demonstrators.
4. Dissemination and communication activities that will be undertaken in the frame of the project.
Duration
1/7/2015- 31/12/2017
Consortium
14 partners
Grant agreement
number 671704
End-to-end virtualised security
CHARISMA provides advanced security features by taking advantage of emerging technologies such as SDN and NFV.
Open access / multi-tenant
CHARISMA enables an open access 5G network architecture, to allow virtualised slicing of network resources.
Total budget
€ 5.8M
High bandwidth / Low-latency
CHARISMA offers a very low-latency 5G networking architecture. We are addressing the low-latency aspect in a variety of ways.
Business perspectives
The business prospects of CHARISMA architecture and a techno-economic analysis were performed
What is it about?
Project Description
CHARISMA proposes an intelligent hierarchical routing and paravirtualised architecture that unites two important concepts: devolved offload with shortest path nearest to end-users and an end-to-end security service chain via virtualized open access physical layer security (PLS). The CHARISMA architecture meets the goals of low-latency (<1ms) and security required for future converged wireless/wireline advanced 5G networking. This provides a cloud infrastructure platform with increased spectral and energy efficiency and enhanced performance targeting the identified needs for 1000-fold increased mobile data volume, 10-100 times higher data rates, 10-100 times more connected devices and 5x reduced latency. Fully aligned and committed to the 5G-PPP principles and KPIs, the CHARISMA proposal brings together 10G-wireless (via mm-wave/60-GHz & free-space optics, FSO) access and 100G fixed optical (OFDM-PON) solutions through an intelligent cloud radio-access-network (C-RAN) and intelligent radio remote head (RRH) platform with IPv6 Trust Node routing featuring very low- latency for the traffic management. Low-cost Ethernet is used across front- and backhaul, and end- user equipment (vCPE), and intelligence distributed across the back-, front-hauls, and perimetric data transports. Ad-hoc mobile device interconnectivities (D2D, D2I, C2C etc.), content delivery network (CDN) and mobile distributed caching (MDC) offer an energy-efficient (better than x20 improvement possible) information-centric networking (ICN) architecture. CHARISMA’s flexible and programmable control and management plane is enabled by the Open network-as-a-Service (OpenNaaS) platform, to offer mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) functionality, with additional cost savings enabled by SDN. Distributed security with self-configured setup of secure and fast virtualised sub-networks enables new applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) and instantaneous machine-type communications (MTC) control. Field trials hosted on the Telekom Slovenia (SI) and APFutura (ES) network infrastructures (following mobile cloud Openstack test-bed evaluation at NCSRD) will validate the advanced 5G CHARISMA architecture, demonstrating the intelligent end-to-end virtualized security platform, for ultra-low latency (low jitter) high-performance (high QoS/E) applications across multiple domains and cells. The CHARISMA approach will benefit user experiences with ground-breaking low-latency services, high-bandwidth, and mobile cloud resilient network security.
Inside the mechanics…
Technologies
Here are some of the technologies, platforms, systems, open-source projects, tools, pieces of software, frameworks… that are used :
